Metaphors of anger, pride, and love : a lexical approach to the structure of concepts / Zoltán Kövecses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kövecses, Zoltán.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; VII:8.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0166-6258 ; 7:8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Semantics.

Concepts.

Anger.

Pride and vanity.

Love.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (155 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1986.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study is an attempt to uncover the structure of three emotion concepts: anger, pride and love. The results indicate that the conceptual structure associated with these emotions consists of four parts: (1) a system of metaphors, (2) a system of metonymies, (3) a system of related concepts, and (4) a category of cognitive models, with a prototypical model in the center. This goes against an influential view of the structure of concepts in linguistics, psychology, anthropology, according to which the structure of a concept can be represented by a small number of sense components.

Contents:

METAPHORS OF ANGER, PRIDE, AND LOVE A LEXICAL APPROACH TO THE STRUCTURE OF CONCEPTS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. GOALS AND METHODS; 2. THE CONCEPT OF ANGER; 2.1. Some questions; 2.2. Metaphor and metonymy; 2.3. The other principal metaphors; 2.4. Some minor metaphors; 2.5. The prototype scenario; 2.6. Restatement of the prototypical scenario; 2.7. The non-prototypical cases; 2.8. Conclusions; 3. THE CONCEPT OF PRIDE; 3.1. Some additional issues; 3.2. Some metonymies for pride; 3.3. Some metaphors; 3.4. Causes of pride

3.5. Scales, related concepts and the prototype3.6. Self-esteem; 3.7. Conceit; 3.8. Vanity; 3.9. Conclusion; 4. THE CONCEPT OF ROMANTIC LOVE; 4.1. Some further aspects of a concept; 4.2. The central metaphor; 4.3. The object of love; 4.4. Related concepts; 4.5. Intensity; 4.6. Passivity, lack of control, pleasantness; 4.7. The ideal model; 4.8. Towards the typical model; 4.9. The typical model; 5. IMPLICATIONS FOR THEORIES OF CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURE; 5.1. The structure of a concept; 5.2. Metaphorical aspects of concepts; 6. IMPLICATIONS FOR THEORIES OF LEXICAL STRUCTURE; 6.1. Polysemy

6.2. Collocation6.3. Semantic fields; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-35900-6

9786613359001

90-272-7927-6

OCLC:

795743645